Adolf D. Ratzka, PhD, Interviews and Profiles

Interviews and Profiles

Adolf Ratzka reflects on the slow progress disabled people have been making during the last decades, the strong powers behind institutionalization, and describes how the Swedish Independent Living Movement introduced direct payments for personal assistance.

1970 Adolf Ratzka as a student at University of California, Los Angeles interviewed by filmmaker Werner Herzog

Adolf Ratzka in his dormitory room together with his personal assistant Mark Kitzman, on the accessible UCLA campus and driving one of the first converted vans from his wheelchair. Clips of Behinderte Zukunft (Handicapped Future) by Werner Herzog. Copyright Werner Herzog Film.